#Onthisday the first flight of #PanAm's #Sikorsky S-40 “American Clipper” departed from Dinner Key, Florida, destined for Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone. It was the first to carry the famous "Clipper" name, which was subsequently registered as a trademark by Pan American. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on November 19, 2019.
Happy Birthday to Jackie Cochran, born #onthisday in 1906 in Muscogee, Florida. After taking her first flying lessons in 1932, she obtained her pilot's license in just three weeks. In 1938, she won the Bendix Trophy, a race from LA to Cleveland. #avgeek #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on May 11, 2020.
Happy Thanksgiving! This was the menu for the Pan American Airways flight on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, 1939, aboard Sikorsky S-42 Clipper N. C. 15373, from Barranquilla, Colombia to Miami, Florida. What is on your #Thanksgiving menu today?
This tweet was posted on November 25, 2021.
He soon dropped the Hercules name in favor of Curtiss and in January 1907, he entered a modified racing motorcycle fitted with the new V-8 aircraft engine at the Winter Speed Carnival in Ormond Beach, Florida. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles
This tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
Operating a Boeing 727, the last Pan American World Airways flight took off from Barbados to Miami, Florida, #onthisday in 1991. What are your favorite memories of Pan Am?
This tweet was posted on December 04, 2018.
Orange Bird, created in 1970 by Walt Disney Studios for the Florida Citrus Commission, never spoke but… http://t.co/tvvfMEbCNK
This tweet was posted on October 10, 2014.
Pan American Airways inaugurated its first scheduled passenger flight on January 16, 1928, with an eight-passenger Fokker F.VIIa/3m. Flying from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, the 90-mile trip took just under 90 minutes. #PanAm #PAA #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.
Pan American Airways was awarded a lucrative airmail route contract from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, in 1927. Unforeseen circumstances led them to hire outside pilot Cy Caldwell and his Fairchild FC-2 inaugurating Pan Am's first service #onthisday in 1927. #PanAm #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2022.
Pan American Airways was awarded the overseas airmail route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, with a deadline to start by October 19, 1927. #Onthisday in 1927, Cy Caldwell took off for Havana from Key West in a Fairchild FC-2, named La Niña, with 7 bags of mail. #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.
Pan American Airways’ inaugurated first scheduled passenger flight on January 16, 1928, with a Fokker F-VIIa/3m. Flying from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, the plane made the 90-mile trip in just under 90 minutes. The round-trip fare was $100 or $1,486.75 now. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 16, 2020.
The Big 2-0! #HappyBirthday to JetBlue which commenced operations #onthisday in 2000. Operating an Airbus A320, JetBlue's inaugural flight took off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Have you ever flown on #JetBlue? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 11, 2020.
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation when it opened #onthisday in 1934. The building served as #PanAm’s base for operations throughout the Caribbean, Central, and South America.
This tweet was posted on March 25, 2022.
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation when it opened #onthisday in 1934.
This tweet was posted on March 25, 2018.
The Pan American Airways Marine Air Terminal on Dinner Key in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, Florida, was considered a milestone of design in commercial aviation when it opened #onthisday in 1934. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on March 25, 2019.
The official inauguration of Pan American Airways’ daily airmail service from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba began #onthisday in 1927. What are your favorite #PanAm memories? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on October 28, 2019.
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postcard: Northeast Airlines, Douglas DC-6B Sunliner, Florida; 1950s
Gift of Thomas G. Dragges
2015.166.1112
luggage label: Northeast Airlines; c. 1955
Gift of the Frank J. Lichtanski Collection
2011.061.0864
This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
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postcard: Pan American Airways, Dinner Key, Miami, Florida; c. 1945
Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family
2012.149.0494
This tweet was posted on March 25, 2022.
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photograph: West Indian Aerial Express, Fairchild FC-2 La Niña at Miami, Florida; 10/15/1927
Gift of Jon E. Krupnick
2008.056.1010
This tweet was posted on October 19, 2021.